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Debian. It does everything I want and nothing I don’t

Did they add tabs or split view with Windows 11? It was ridiculous how they never had this in 10

Tusk is the PM of Poland, he’s the one making the accusation and he claims they did it at the behest of Russian intelligence. Did you read it at all?

I’ve never had a single issue with webp on Linux or Android. This must be a MS/Apple problem if anything

They realized that they’re no match for China so they’re going to focus on bullying Latin America

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.nfo is just ASCII text, you open it in a text editor.

Would be based if they did this on purpose

The NYT isn’t getting gamed by the right, they’re on the right

I use archive.is to read news articles. Just put the URL into it, it’s usually already archived

You are watching a master of diplomacy at work

I use HeliBoard too. You have to load a library to enable swipe typing, but it’s still totally offline.

“Masking propaganda that influences public opinion under the guise of providing informational material is antithetical to Wikimedia’s ‘educational’ mission.”

Wikipedia may claim to be neutral, but even though it isn’t, that shouldn’t affect its 501© status. Non-profits are allowed to have bias. Trump’s stupid thugs are going after a very popular source of information that actually reinforces pro-US bias. Maybe they are too short-sighted to realize the value of a “limited hangout”.

Lubuntu about 10 years ago, then Mint, openSUSE, and I’ve stuck with Debian for the past eight.

Even if you extracted the APK, apps can tell how they were installed and may refuse to work if it wasn’t via the Play Store.

Yeah, that ROM doesn’t support MicroG. Graphene is more focused on being hardened for security

What ROM are you using? MicroG depends on a ROM feature called “signature spoofing” that allows it to impersonate the Play Services apps.

It’s a drop-in replacement so it should provide push notifications and location functionality just fine for every app. Other functionality such as IAPs will probably be unsupported.

From the data I see on Plexus for WhatsApp, the core functionality and notifications work just fine on MicroG, but backing up chats to Google Drive is broken.

There’s a fork of Telegram on F-droid called “Telegram FOSS” that runs a background service for notifications. I’ve used it and the effect on battery drain is pretty minor, like maybe 2% per charge. Not sure if something similar exists for Signal.

I use MicroG on my phone, it’s a basic FOSS replacement for GMS and makes push notifications work for all apps. It gets push notifs from Google’s servers but you don’t need an account. It doesn’t use Google at all for location, which is nice as that’s a highly invasive aspect of Play Services. Not all ROMs are compatible with it, I use it on Lineage

Why “foreign” bad actors? Reddit is a US company and has “former” CIA in high-up positions. The site is heavily astroturfed by US military and intelligence. The prevailing opinions seen on the site are extremely pro-NATO and pro-“Israel”. If foreign actors are trying to influence the site, they’re in the extreme minority.

The site is of course also heavily botted to fake engagement, similar to how twitter is, but i think a lot of the unpleasant people on there are real. The site caters to their hostile, antisocial behavior.